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University of Washington business students Marc Barros and Jason Green, each also avid skiers, needed an entry for an entrepreneurial contest. Hey, they thought, why donâ€™t we figure out how to attach a camera to a ski helmet and film our runs?

“We really just wanted to show our friends what we were doing,” he said.

The contraption of a camera connected to a battery-powered camcorder won third place in the Business Plan Competition and $20,000. And that helped them start a Seattle-based company, Contour, that last year was rated as one of the fastest